Air Italy: time out for 1,322 workers, waiting for layoffs
The CGIL: "They left us alone, now we need a miracle"
The 1,322 workers of Air Italy have no time left, for whom the last extension of the redundancy fund expired yesterday, after the decision of the property not to request its renewal , despite the appeals of the unions and the Sardinia Region.
Already today, if not in the next few days, employees could begin to receive the first letters of collective dismissal - which remained on stand-by for a few days awaiting a possible resolution of the dispute - after the termination of the activity of the Sardinian company. Qatar, placed in liquidation.
"The last day of layoffs, the social shock absorber that somehow keeps the workers connected to the company, was that of December 31. Now the workers, barring a miracle, could receive the letters of dismissal - explained the general secretary of Filt Cgil Sardegna Arnaldo Boeddu -. But as long as there is only one possibility that these letters are not sent, we will fight together with the workers so that a story born over sixty years ago does not end in this way. . Prime Minister Mario Draghi together with his ministers (labor, economic development and transport) must intervene to block the sending of letters ".
"An uncommon dispute and not the same as all the others in terms of size and social impact - concluded the trade unionist -. Yet, except in recent weeks they have left us alone".
Yesterday 150 employees of the airline and representatives of the Ap, Cobas and Usb trade unions took to the streets in front of the Olbia town hall, accusing politics of having forgotten them.
A FUND FOR RE -EMPLOYMENT - Meanwhile, 4.5 million euros are ready (3.8 million for the European Globalization Adjustment Fund, 683,000 euros for the Region) to be used to reintegrate the company's employees into the world of work.
For workers based in Sardinia, the planned interventions are training and retraining for ground staff, contributions for training costs, specialist training vouchers, hiring incentives, bonuses for business creation. and bonuses for territorial mobility.
(Unioneonline / F)
